Resolution

[rowyn]

I was thinking, earlier today, about Nick Berg's death. As the news of his murder was first circulating, some of my LJ friends were pointing at things in the video, or in the events leading up to his death, that appeared inconsistent with the story presented in the video: that he'd been kidnapped and executed by Muslim terrorists while the videotape was rolling.

And I was wondering: did anything more ever come of that? Was a hypothesis advanced that explained the apparent inconsistencies? Were the concerns of armchair bloggers refuted by mainstream sources or official channels? Does anyone here know?

[Edit: Here's an example of the inconsistencies that were being discussed at the time.]

Comments

Re: Nothing was resolved

[garyamort.livejournal.com]

At least as interesting are the other half of the country, who instantly assumed that it was a top-down order to torture those prisoners and is to this day reluctant to admit otherwise.

Interesting, but not germane to my point. I was pointing out examples of people who try to either dismiss crimes commited by members of their 'group' as either not being performed by some other group or denial of the crime. Primarily the latter, but I opened the door to the former because it is the other option peolpe tend to take and couldn't find a way to not mention it and remain balanced in my mind.

As such, the response of many Americans to assume a massive conspiracy wasn't relevant to my point, which just to re-iterate since this has gone on so long was:

A major leg of the Nick Berg conspiracy is the men in the video did not portray the mannerisms of middle eastern people as claimed by middle eastern people.

I dismiss this claim as not being a compelling claim, because it is human nature to rationalize away crimes by claiming the people doing them are not part of your group.